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11 April 2014
Issue: 7602 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 11 April 2014

THE ONE(ISH) SHOW: THIRD EPISODE

If someone told you that the single County Court arrives on 22 April 2014, they were right (see "Civil way", NLJ, 14 March 2014, p 17 and 21 March 2014, p18). Here’s even more of it and other developments.

Budget Bonanza For proceedings started on or after 22 April 2014 there are major costs budgeting changes (CPR amendment SI 2014/867). The regime is disapplied to Pt 8 multi-tracks tracks but extended to all Pt 7 multi-tracks valued at less than £10m. There will be a discretion to apply to Pt 8 and other Pt 7 claims with which an amended PD3E will deal.

Save our District Registries Worry not. All of them remain and the patches they cover are unchanged (see the Civil Courts Order 2014 (SI 2014/819) if you must) except that Brecon will be called Brecknock District Registry, Chatham changes to Medway, Margate to Thanet and Torquay to Torquay and Newton Abbot District Registry and why not?

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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